Gavroche

Brewed by St. Sylvestre
Style: Bière de Garde
St. Sylvestre-Cappel, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

330ml bottle. Pours a clear amber-brown, with a huge head, excellent retention, but very poor lacing. The aroma is a fairly straight-up caramel, with a pine resin tang coming through. There is a light, floral bitterness to begin, moving into a pleasant burnt caramel and pine finish. A quite simple beer, but well-executed and enjoyable.

Little oxidized aroma, some grassy notes and thistle. amber gold. Dry paper up leads to maple syrup and a touch of young wood.

750, corked and baled. Crazy weird bale, had to snag the needlenose to pry it off. Cool plastic shrink wrap around that. Pours a gorgeous clear medium amber with multiple fast tight nucleation columns and.a dense creamy tan head. Lots of woolly lace. Nutty, caramelly nose. Some co2 bite in the nose as well. Creamy medium body with tons of prickly carb, even after minutes of swirling. Nuts, caramel, and carbonic bite on the mid palate. Long bitey finish. Way overcarbonated but.otherwise good.

Bottle from La Bon Marche, Paris. Very earthy, dry, dirty aroma with a bit of caramel malt, some wood, dust, cocoa . Pale amber with a low fine head. Flavor of dry cocoa, dust, some light orange, zest, alcohol apparent, dry and austere with a nice sweet underpinning. Very complex, challenging, and interesting. Strong farmyard charcter. Interesting as hell, and a step above the others we have tried on this stay in Paris.

Off-white head, quite big, amber body. Caramel, nuts, barley, alcohol on the nose. Taste is a soothing mix of barley and caramel with a dry and spicy alcohol finish.

Bouteille de 750 ml. Le liquide a une couleur ambrée orangée. Sa forte effervescence permet au liquide de construire une tête mousseuse énorme avec une très bonne rétention. Au nez, les arômes sont principalement ceux du malt grillé avec quelques pointes de sucre d’orge, de bois et d’alcool. Présence d’esters fruités. Les houblons sont difficilement cernables : peut-être se manifestent-ils à travers ce léger parfum épicé. Le goût est une suite logique des choses avec un malt qui se défini par un caractère davantage caramélisé. L’alcool est aussi plus senti avec une saveur parfumée. En bouche, la structure du liquide est faible et sa texture est à mon avis trop mince. En finale, le liquide offre une douceur maltée à laquelle répond un alcool qui chatouille les papilles.

UPDATED: OCT 23, 2010 great head. nice froth. beautiful mohagany to red hue. the nose is rich, creamy and round. notes of malts as well as bread and chocolate/toffee. a hint of nuts as well as rich caramel. on the palate it is fuller bodied. real rich creamy texture follow with a slight milk chocolate note. a nice expressive brew that lingers with loads of vanilla/chocolate sweet notes. great stuff after a long nite of drinking.

330 ml bottle from Premier Wine & Spirits (Halifax). Pours a fairly clear burnt orange with fairly large slightly off-white head. Brown sugar and oakiness in aroma. Flavour is burnt brown sugar, oak, mild fruitiness with the alcohol apparent in the finish although not aggressively so. Fizzy carbonation. Good.